Paulo Coelho: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 14)
Paulo Coelho ist brasilianischer Schriftsteller und Bestseller-Autor. Zitate auf Englisch.“If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.”
Quelle: The Winner Stands Alone
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Quelle: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Kontext: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Quelle: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Kontext: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
“Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.”
Quelle: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Variante: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Quelle: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept